E-Books as a Research/Notetaking tool.

The one thing that seems absent from all thereviews, yours (C-Net) and every other one I've looked at is a lack of functionality of any e reader as a research and writing tool.

I'm aware that some have note taking capabilities which make them potentiallysuperior if you can mark/highlight things you want to come back to. Even moreuseful is an ability to transfer either the text as annotated, the book, orsections of text to a PC for incorporation into a document. This could be areal time-saver with respect to quotes and also saving references (foot notes).

Do any of the e-readers allow this, at least in a fairly quick andconvenient form?

One thing I have noticed on newspaper subscriptions is that they don't allowyou to do that - you have to e-mail an article to yourself and then cut andpaste the information you want to save. It actually is easier to saveinformation from their "free" online subscriptions. Maybe this is whyso many are struggling financially?!!

The other thing missing from reviews seems to be book accessibility. Does itmake a difference which one you have as to 1) number of books accessible, 2)type/publishers of books from whom you can access books, and 3) accessibility of books and documents beyond copyright such as The Federalist Papers?

I'm not a techie but it doesn't seem like it would be all that complicated tohave a device such as I described. Is there such capability presently either inany of the e-readers or perhaps software for PCs?

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First, if the issue has been discussed before it would be nice to know where by reference, link, etc.

Definition of terminology would be helpful. By "consumption" I assume that means reading and by "creation" I assume that means writing. I am under the impression that an E reader is something other than a tablet. Perhaps it is a subspecie of a tablet? The virtue of a reader would seem to be 1) it is light weight and as transportable as a book and 2) it presents its information in a form that resembles a page and thus is easy on the eyes by eliminating the glare. I don't know about others but I've never found reading on a computer screen either comfortable or sustainable for lengthier items.

I fully understand that an e-reader is generally not useful for "creation" or writing since they don't come with a regular keyboard or voice recognition software such that you can make extensive notes or commentary. But I understand they do have note-taking capacity similar to writing marginalia. The potential advantages would seem to be 1) quicker access to one's notes and 2) the ability to transfer both the portion of text and one's notes to a creation or writing device such as a PC. My question is: do they really do that and if so which models are the best?

I know that one can do this by using Kindle for PC but that has the serious disadvantage of having to sit at a computer to read.

And since folk could demand I copy every discussion with the same dialog, I'm going to dismiss such requests. If you want to research this, then you can do that.

For now, you seem to be aware of the limitations. And those limitations are harsher and more imposing than on your PC/Apple today. If you feel this is incorrect then what stopped you from buying the ereader?

Here I have the Kindle, many Android tablets and none are good at what you seem to want to do. I can't see any good reason to use such things as the content consumption is BURNED INTO the system. I'm unsure how much clearer I can put this.

There were a few members that thought the content was open for copy/paste but that depends on the reader PLUS the limitations of the content. Some is locked down to the point of read only on the screen without any way to get it except to go get a camera.

From what I think you want to do, you don't want any ereader or current tablet.Bob